Oscars - Ric O'Barry's Text

[Ferret Annica]

Run time: 00:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-qu_d0Qt0   Posted on YouTube: March 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: itotallythinkimfunny Views on YouTube: 454   Posted on DU: March 09, 2010 By DU Member: Ferret Annica Views on DU: 957

 
The Oscars cut away from Ric O'Barry really fast when he held up his sign. Too bad they are so allergic to such great activism.


A quote from Ric:

Without your support, this would never have happened. So, even though I wasn't able to thank you all at the podium, I thank you all now.

But this has never been about winning awards. Our job is to end the slaughter and stop the poisoning. And now our work in Japan begins anew. We must focus like a laser on getting The Cove and our message to the Japanese people.

But there are threats on the horizon. Officials in Japan are threatening repercussions against university and community groups that dare to show The Cove. Dolphin-killing fishermen's unions are threatening lawsuits against theaters that show the film. There are even some signs that I could face arrest in Japan, even though I've broken no laws whatsoever.

We wont give in to this pressure. Instead, I am making plans to spend months in Japan with our Save Japan Dolphins Team. I want to be wherever we can find an audience. Our message will particularly resonate with young people, to whom we need to reach out with the dangers of mercury-contaminated dolphin meat and the slaughter of dolphins they love as much as we do.

[Tx4obama]

1. I think Food, Inc. should have won

I along with others of course don't want the dolphins to be killed

BUT I think the film Food, Inc. was a much more important message since it affects ALL of us - ALL people that eat.

Excerpt from Food, Inc.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3I

Official trailer for Food, Inc.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0

Filmmaker Robert Kenner and Michael Pollan explain their new film, "Food, Inc." to John Dickerson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXmF_erEv1o

ABC News segment June 2009 regarding Food, Inc.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cb6HwzCkEs

Enjoy! ;)

[pundaint]

3. I just watched it Sunday morning - it is disquieting and needs to be seen by all eaters.

This isn't just a film about some safety issues. This is vitally important stuff, possibly more pressing than global warming.

Netflix subscribers: it's available for instant viewing.

[Ferret Annica]

5. I completely disagree. Dolphins are smart and with their own culture

And they are far more endangered and numbers depleted than our species of hominids poisoning and butchering them with the same enthusiasm of the Nazis in Germany doing in Jews.

It is a question of getting one's priorities straight.

To draw an analogy, one would help someone at an accident first who was bleeding out, even if drawn by attraction to help the beautiful blond with broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder.

You feel the pull to deal with your species' poison problem before the more serious problems of a species we are so speciocentric our culture is willfully blind to the fact they are people too.

Wake up people. The Na'vi are here on Earth; endangered and deeply oppressed. Their name is Tursiops Truncatus/Bottle nosed dolphins. In fact, there is a range of species of cetaceans who rate the respect the fictional Na'vi deserved and got in Avatar.

[swilton]

6. Thanks for the references

In my old(er) age I am getting more and more sensitive about violence in movies. I read the reviews of the Cove and don't believe I could watch it as much as I sympathize with the dolphins.

Since I took a class in sustainable agriculture/organic farming in the mid-1990s I have been wary of the corporatization of food...how fewer and fewer suppliers are gaining control of the food supply (notice I said supply - as in farm to grocery shelf; I didn't say 'industry' because that is already owned by the food industry).

I will watch Food Inc rather than the Cove for the above reasons...I will still support dolphin conservation and awareness.

[HisTomness]

2. To be fair, it is a live broadcast

If you're the broadcast director, you have no idea what this guy is unfurling and don't necessarily have the luxury of assuming you can puzzle it out quickly enough to determine if it should be left on the air. In this case it was great activism, but for all the director knows it could be a picture of hairy balls, in which case his job security is inversely proportional to the amount of time they spend being televised.

[Name removed]

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[Voice for Peace]

7. with all due respect, I don't think that poster's comment was clueless at all.

This is how wars begin.. this kind of assumption, that somebody else is wrong or stupid or bad if they have a different perspective or belief; then the insults, or the gossip, and the rock throwing, and then the guns, and it goes on. I thought the poster's comment made sense. And your response was essentially just an insult.

There's a lot of that here, on this forum of people who are supposedly progressive. There is nothing more regressive than insulting another human being for no good reason.

[Ferret Annica]

8. And you are trying to insult me by insinuating I insult

Ric O'Barry is very well known and consistent to a fault in how he does his activism.

This was more like they were watching for this to happen so they could cut away to keep from insulting the mind set in Japan that it is OK to kill and eat intelligent mammals as long as they don't eat the generally the same to less intelligent human animals.

Obviously I agree with Ric, but there is no way I am going to listen to your ridiculous spin; and insult with no response.

[Voice for Peace]

9. I hadn't ever heard of Ric O'Barry till I saw your post.

But I'm not stupid, ignorant, or clueless... if someone called me anything like that, I would find it insulting. Wouldn't you?